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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author close the second chapter?
(a) Without optimism.
(b) With eager hope.
(c) With surrender to the grief.
(d) With prayer.

2. What disease took both of the author's parents?
(a) Old age.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Cancer.

3. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) She cannot come home from the hospital.
(b) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(c) He cannot express his fears to her.
(d) He thinks she will not miss him.

4. Rather than relying upon his memory of his wife, what does the author want?
(a) To dwell on her sweetness.
(b) To forget she ever lived.
(c) For God to return her.
(d) To replace her with a new partner.

5. To what does the author compare falling in love with H.'s memory?
(a) Incest.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Insanity.
(d) The next best thing to having H. with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?

2. What did the author's friends call him?

3. How does Lewis begin his reflections?

4. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?

5. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?

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